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Ben Horowitz

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
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Billionaire Black Loyal Wife
There are no silver bullets.
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Bullets Growth No Silver
To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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Losing Succeed Technique
Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.
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Choice Courageous Decision
Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’
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Believe Musical Genius People
You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.
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Better Startup
Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
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Bar Company Lasts Lower Years
When you’re making a critical decision, you have to understand how it’s going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you’re talking to, but the people that aren’t in the room. Everybody else.
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Critical Decisions Talking Views
As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise – security, quality and worms.
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Kind Moving Quality
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Knowing Knowledge Gain Nothing Shortcut
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.
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Planning Useless Valuable
The trouble with innovation is that truly innovative ideas often look like bad ideas at the time.
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Ideas Innovation Looks
Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Length Management Years
Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.
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Clarity Needs Organization
In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.
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Decision Found Important
It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.
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Customer Figuring Jobs Product Strategy Turns

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